Surface wave tomography of the western United States from ambient seismic noise: Rayleigh wave group velocity maps

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Moschetti, M P ^a   Ritzwoller, M H ^a   Shapiro, N M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Western United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249093062     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001655     Document Type: Article

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